One last useful tip for any potential Joomla installers for EX2/EX4/Mirror.
Joomla by default allows to upload content files upto 10 MB in size. But you can change that from Site Administrator → Media Manager → Options. I bumped it to 150 MB, just so that I could upload a few PDFs that were 25-35 MB in size. However, during my testing I found out that I could not even upload a 9MB PDF but was able to upload a 5MB PDF. I remembered this post of mine about how PHP was only allocated a ridiculous 8MB in WD’s firmware → http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-My-Cloud-EX2/Wordpress-Fatal-error/m-p/727266#M384
So on a hunch, I changed PHP’s memory size to 200 MB in /etc/php/php-fpm.conf and killed php-fpm processes (see detailed steps here though this person only bumped it to 64MB but you can choose a higher vaue if you like but remember EX2 only has total 512 MB so don’t go overboard → http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-My-Cloud-EX2/Wordpress-Fatal-error/m-p/774767#M895 ). And right away I was able to upload a 30MB PDF - which I then shared as a http URL with a friend.
So Joomla can be another way to share files with friends as long as you know your external IP address or setup a dynamic DNS address and then tack the rest of the URL to it (like http:///Joomla/images/… ). Though not an ideal way to share thousands of files - but for a handful files, Joomla offers a way to share files via http URLs accessible from anywhere.
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